DU: Beware the Water Desalination Movement and it's Lies.

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32. I think solar distillation would be more cost effective and less impactive.

I bought one of these for my students in 2010:

The water cone can create potable water through evaporation, just add sun!

This could be done on a larger scale with more output, IMO, than any sort of filtration system which, at some point, would become saturated with the salts and minerals being filtered out.

Honestly, we will be alright if we start living on less water: No lawns, no using water to wash down trucks and sidewalks, shorter showers and reuse of water.
We should only use drinking water for drinking, cooking, and bathing and nothing more.
Agriculture should be required to use drip and other efficient forms of irrigation.
Fracking, well, if we have to do it then the water should be costly so that they're forced to recycle it.
And all use should be metered and we can institute tiered rates to incentivize low use and punish waste.

The money going to desalination and large projects that don't really change out habits would be better spent on residential upgrades to allow greywater use and other conservation technologies.

We haven't even begun to do these things.

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